“I hope you sleep all day, and dream of me. Are you happy?”
— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson written c. October 1909
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“I wonder if you talked about me, as you went home, or thought of me when the moon rose,”
— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vanessa Bell written c. August 1908
“I feel unspeakably lonely. And I feel - drained. It is a blank state of mind and soul I cannot describe to you as I think it would not make any difference. Also it is a very private feeling I have - that of melting into a perpetual nervous breakdown. I am often questioning myself what I further want to do, who I further wish to be; which parts of me, exactly, are still functioning properly. No answers, darling. At all.”
— Anne Sexton
“I shall hold my mouth. My life has been altogether too many words; I cannot remember now why I have talked so much. Only when I cam down here and was silent in the rain was I shown the truth of things.”
— Isak Denisen, from “The Young Man with the Carnation”, Winter’s Tales